# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/deirdre-mccloskey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:06:56.613Z

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name: "Deirdre McCloskey"
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description: "Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is an American economist and academic. Since 2023 she has been a distinguished scholar and holder of the Isaiah Berlin Chair in Liberal Thought at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. From 2000 to 2015, she taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was a distinguished professor of economics and history and a professor of English and communication. During those years, she taught economic history at the University of Gothenburg, economics at the University of the Free State, and philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam."
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birthDate: "1942-09-11"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump